Since the league season is winding down now, and the C-division has actually finished, I feel like now would be a good time to kick off the KO Cup. This will not affect most of you for a while - in fact, not until your Open divisions are pretty much completed. However, those teams who start off in later rounds will often need to wait for games in earlier rounds to finish, so it would be best for Round 1 to start now.

It should be noted that future rounds will start as soon as both opponents are determined, as opposed to all matches starting at the same time. This way, we will not be waiting aeons for the completion of the Cup.

For a detailed description of how the Cup works, check out the first post here:

http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/the-ko-cup

I will send messages out to the team captains involved in the first round. Links and results will be found on a forum thread I am about to create.

Thanks.